Esperanto?
 

Does anyone here speak Esperanto?

I'm learning it and would like a study buddy.

Apparently the signs on the walls in Red Dwarf are in Esperanto.

Really? I did not know that.

I thought Esperanto was officially declared dead a couple years ago. Nice to see that there's some attempt at a resurgance. One of my college friends decided he wanted to learn Esperanto at one point. He would excitedly tell us things about it, particularly those aspects of grammar that made it much easier to learn.

He got as far as constructing one sentence before he quit. He was a lot better at Fortran, APL, and Assembler.

Myoi bonoi granoi domoi is about as close as I can come to rendering it.

What does it mean? "I am many big good houses."

I also once knew someone who collected "Please pass me that squirrel sandwich" in different languages. I lost that friend as a consequence of a divorce. Not my own. I was a friend of the guy that ended up with the wife.

(I've vaguely thought about learning at least one Native American Language, and dabbled at Ancient Greek, but self-study of a language is not the easiest thing.)

Some Esperanto links:

http://www.esperanto-usa.org/

http://lernu.net (where I'm learning from... on the left, under courses is "bildo kaj demando" .. "Pictures and questions")

http://donh.best.vwh.net/esperanto.php

http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/esperanto/

and about a million others... Esperanto is far from dead... And it's really easy to learn...the part that confuses me most is that it doesn't matter what order in the sentence the words are in...it means the same thing. Which is cool, but hard to wrap my mind around.

Just do latin. It's the language with the most ties to all of the rest you'll ever see anyway.

I'll be doing latin in a couple of years.

I was doing russian, but I'm waiting for my college course to do that.

I was doing Croatian, but my study partners are over there at the moment and we dont' talk enough for me to keep it fresh, so I've forgotten most of it.

I was doing Hebrew, but the vowels are really hard, so I need to take a class on that where I have instant feedback.

So now I'm doing Esperanto.

:)